Casablanca: A TVCU Quickie
What's a quickie? See this blog. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz and based on Murray Burnett and Joan Alison 's un-produced stage play Everybody Comes to Rick's . The film stars Humphrey Bogart , Ingrid Bergman , and Paul Henreid ; and features Claude Rains , Conrad Veidt , Sydney Greenstreet , Peter Lorre , and Dooley Wilson . Set during World War II , it focuses on a man torn between, in the words of one character, "love and virtue". He must choose between his love for a woman and helping her Czech Resistance leader husband escape the Vichy -controlled Moroccan city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Nazis . Story editor Irene Diamond convinced producer Hal Wallis to purchase the film rights ...